For the first time, the College has developed an audit toolkit to support Emergency Ddepartments treating children to monitor how well they are meeting the 70 “Facing the Future” standards. Dr John Criddle and Dr Virginia Davies discuss the development of the toolkit and its impact for children in mental health crisis.
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The authors report on a pilot study of an inpatient intervention for suicidal adolescents, As Safe as Possible (ASAP), supported by a smartphone app (BRITE) to reduce suicide attempts following hospital discharge.. Login at top right hand side of page using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP (legacy account)- Please contact the library to receive a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Suicidal self-poisoning is a medical emergency but it is also a psychiatric one. Yet before a psychiatrist can be engaged it is often necessary for a physician or paediatrician to set the scene. Young people who have just taken a massive risk with their lives are in a turmoil of rage, fear, grief and shame. Though some will be keen to talk, others may be harder to reach. ‘The fact that young people who have self-harmed arrive at A&E feeling like ‘rubbish’ may predispose them to perceive staff attitudes and behaviours as hostile and punitive, even when staff do not intend them as such.’1 An attentive and careful medical assessment conveys that the problem is taken seriously by the hospital, for which patients will often in time be grateful.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare has recently launched a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Liaison Service to help prevent avoidable admissions to hospital. The service will initially run as a pilot for six months and will then be reviewed.
The role of the new team is to ensure under 18s are not admitted to hospital unnecessarily following self-harm, overdose, or thoughts of suicide. They are instead treated in the community, wherever possible.
The team will assess patients in A&E and where possible they will create a safe discharge plan with pre-arranged follow up from the team or from another CAMHS worker. The liaison nurses work closely with paediatric colleagues, community CAMHS teams, Social Care and other agencies as appropriate to ensure young people’s needs are met safely.
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In 2016 Children’s, Women’s, Diagnostic and Division at UHNM made a significant change in their practice by employing a Clinical Lead Nurse in Mental Health, this post was designed to create and sustain significant changes to mental health care within an acute hospital with a specific aim on improving Child and Adolescent mental health and Perinatal mental health.
The ‘Improving services for people with mental health needs who present to A&E’ CQUIN and the ‘Transitions out of Children and Young People’s (CYP) Mental Health Services’ CQUIN (Commissioning for Quality and Innovation) aim to incentivise providers to work with partners to improve patient care by delivering services more efficiently and effectively.
People with mental ill health are three times more likely to present to A&E than the general population so the former CQUIN will allow mental health and acute trusts over the next two years to access funding aimed in year one at improving support for the top 0.25% or 150 to 200 people per A&E, who use it most frequently through improved recognition and coding of mental health needs and proactive care planning.
Year two focus will be on reducing overall number of attendances at A&E by people with mental health needs as improved community-based mental health services come online.
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